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We investigate the global, comparative, and transnational history of Europe since 1400

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Writing disability into European memory

Monika Baar on the stories left out

The study of European memory has boomed in recent years, yet disabled people remain largely absent from it. EUI Professor Monika Baar discusses her project to write disability into European memory, and what changes when the past is read through this lens, in this #EUIResearch interview.

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Publications

The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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Contribution to book

The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

What bolstered the identity of professional women in Scandinavia, particularly regarding their rights and opportunities to work and earn money on equal terms with men? The chapter explores...

AUSTVEG, Victoria Ciobanu, LARSEN, Eirinn,
2025

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The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

Working Paper

The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

This paper contributes to our understanding of how international order was produced in the economic discourse around the League of Nations of the 1930s.

SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike
2026

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The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

Article

From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

This paper pieces together the Foreign Legion’s recruitment practices, its methods for enlisting military exiles, and the Russian legionnaires’ journeys.

LIMA, Salvador Daniel
2025

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From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

Contribution to book

Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

The chapter reconstructs the diplomatic activity of the Austro-Hungarian consular wife Teresina Lippich von Lindburg (1854–1924) and this activity’s subsequent concealment in the...

MÖRSDORF, Sven
2025

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Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

Article

Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Dall’inizio del regno personale di Luigi XIV nel 1661, le prime sortite nel Mediterraneo dopo la (ri)costruzione della marina francese furono un’occasione perfetta per il suo primo...

MOREL, Maxime
2025

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Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Events

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Benno Gammerl delivering the Yves Meny Lecture Annual Lecture

Why history needs an intersectional perspective

At the 2026 Yves Mény Annual Lecture Professor Benno Gammerl explored how intersectional perspectives and individual life stories can complement established narratives of German contemporary history and help us better understand the present.

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EUI co-curates Global Florence, an exhibition on a merchant's voyage around 1600

From 9 October 2026 to 9 January 2027, the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence hosts ‘Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573-1636’. Co-curated by EUI Professor Giorgio Riello, the exhibition follows one merchant's voyage around the world through 69 objects.

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Rethinking US sanctions in a globalised world, with Flavia Canestrini

In this #EUIResearch interview, Max Weber Fellow Flavia Canestrini explores how the United States redesigned its sanctions policy to reconcile the demands of a globalised economy with its geopolitical ambitions. The interview reflects on what this shift reveals about the evolution of US power.

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